The Official SAW Escape

This is definitely one big cash grab for Egan & co. The rooms are themed beautifully and very well put together, BUT they rush you through everything and just push you into the next room if you run out of time. You are left without a game master for the first couple rooms, then are joined by a game master, but the GM is then taken away, and you are left alone again until the very last room, so you get essentially no help when you need it. They are focused more on being a haunt than an escape room, with lots of random loud noises and unnecessary jumpscares. Not to mention the location is difficult to find, and parking is absolutely horrendous.

Great set design, poor gameplay. Please, please improve the puzzles and maybe increase the time. I feel it’s all about the money and not the escape experience. This could be a wonderful escape room, but not there yet.

Awesome set design but it was more of a haunted house than an escape room.

It's great decorated but there's malfunctions in it for us that were frustrating. It feels pretty chaotic which can be good. Lots of loud random noises. You will most likely be paired with random strangers (total of 9 of us, probably best with max 6). It's room by room with maybe 1-3 things to do in each room. Each room is timed ~8 minutes.

Set design was amazing! The game master essentially guides you thru each room. If you fail to complete a room you are just forced to the next one. The whole experience felt rushed.

It was overall an okay room. Like all the other reviews, it’s a guided experience with some puzzles. We typically are always open to hints and nudges, for this room we were told right away what to do before getting a chance to fully explore the rooms and figure it out for ourselves. Despite that, the set design was amazing and our GM was extremely nice ! Would recommend doing this room first and ending with the Blair Witch!

Not a fan of this. The effects were cool, but you are forced through each room if not completed in time. If you get stuck with a group like we did and didn’t do anything makes it harder to work through each room.

Not a great experience, definitely linked to the groups we were put with. Not the companies fault I guess but it’s a clear cash grab, especially with how they just push you through to the next section so the next group can come in

Well, here we are. I’ve wanted to do this room since it came out years ago and was so excited to do it finally… we left feeling so disappointed. First, the team mates we were paired with sucked- not the escape rooms fault. They have an option that you can have a private room for $400+ but let’s be honest, majority of us aren’t doing that so it’s a gamble (it is Vegas, I guess) Then our GM/actor… boy… I really wish I could say better about him since a lot of other reviews say their actor was a highlight. He, unfortunately, made the experience WAY worse. He would nudge us in the right direction when asked, but other than that, his character dialogue basically consisted of “wow, you guys are stupid” I don’t mind a game master that playfully roasts our group while in character, that can be very fun- but this was excessive to the point where it felt more like bullying and just plain annoying. It doesn’t add to the tension. The puzzle design is hit and miss. Gotta be honest, maybe these puzzles were cutting edge when the escape room first came out but I’ve seen a lot of these style of puzzles used better elsewhere and for less of a ticket price. Also, some puzzles are humanly impossible unless you complete some of the early rooms, which give you hints down the line. I would not come here for well put together puzzle design. The only thing positive out of our experience is the set design. Gotta give them their props I wanted nothing more than to sing this rooms praises from the mountain top, but due to falling short on the teammate gamble, our annoyed & highly insulting actor and high tech but illogical puzzle design, I cannot recommend this experience.

While SAW is probably fun for fans of the franchise (I've never seen it), I didn't enjoy the experience. In my opinion, the game design, the specific GM we had, and the specific group we played with were all poor. I think there were about 9 people total in our group, which is just way too much for players to reasonably be a part of what's going on, but also seemed like a typical group size. A lot of the players we were grouped with also seemed to have very little escape room experience, so things that a more experienced player might expect to go smoothly were instead a trainwreck - we failed two puzzles due to player inexperience slowing things down. The first time was sort of OK, as we were getting better at it and almost made it, but the second time was agonizing - watching someone else try to do a not uncommon escape room task and just not being able to do it, but also not wanting to be rude and snatch it out of their hands, and getting nowhere close. Part of this is also puzzle design - because the game is heavily pipelined and groups get pushed through when time is up, there's no incentive for designers to come up with good puzzles - people will get through on time regardless. I like most GMs, but the one we had annoyed me. Especially in the final room, as we were awkwardly waiting for one player to try to accomplish a task, the GM was just screwing with us, giving us meaningless tasks to do and lying about what to expect. I suppose he was entertaining himself, but it made me not trust him or his intentions, which is not what I want in a GM.